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New York’s political leaders have reached a deal on one of Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo’s legislative priorities for 2015, saying they will adopt new laws intended to change the way sexual assaults on all college campuses in the state are handled.
The latest round of talks between NJ Transit and its labor unions has broken down, signaling increased tensions between the two sides over pay and benefits. Union members have been working without a new contract for four years, union leaders said.
The University of Hawaii law school, the Hawaii State Judiciary, and environmental organizations are gearing up for the launch of Hawaii’s environmental court on July 1 — the second of its kind in the nation.
All but four states have either met or are working toward meeting federal guidelines intended to prevent prison rape, the U.S. Department of Justice says.
The Obama administration gave conditional approval Monday to Arkansas, Delaware and Pennsylvania to expand their roles in the insurance marketplaces created under the 2010 health care law, ahead of a high court decision that could wipe out federal health insurance subsidies for millions.
Has Rhode Island learned anything from the last economic-development shellacking it took?
Unlike similar initiatives that only build housing for low-income people, Philadelphia's will also target people who make too much to qualify for public housing but too little to afford private housing.
Some school districts are billing parents for bus service to offset budget shortfalls. The move has angered parents in some communities and worried some school officials, who are concerned about children’s safety and access to education.
Congress is just now coalescing around federal standards. Pending legislation would preempt the collage of state laws and enforce a definition of personal information that is narrower than what many states use.
Portion of Wisconsin doctors who fail to meet the state's requirement of 30 hours of continuing medical education every two years, which is the nation's lowest requirement.
Portion of residents in Spokane, Wash., who are black. The head of the city's NAACP chapter resigned Monday amid allegations of lying about her race.
Declaring “a new era of job growth in the state of Texas,” Gov. Greg Abbott on Monday signed a $2.56 billion bill cutting the franchise tax rate paid by businesses by 25 percent.
A grass fire reported Monday afternoon on the Kenai Peninsula grew rapidly through the afternoon, burning six structures and prompting a voluntary evacuation alert covering hundreds of homes in the Sterling area, emergency officials said.
A bill intended to ensure the state doesn't lose $100 million in federal aid as it sets new restrictions for welfare recipients has been signed by Gov. Sam Brownback.
Leaders from Michigan, Ohio and Ontario have agreed to reduce phosphorus in the western Lake Erie basin by 40% by 2025. The nutrient is a key ingredient of widespread algae blooms in that portion of the lake -- including a toxic strain that disrupted water supplies to 400,000 people in southeast Michigan and the Toledo area last August.
A North Carolina law that would have forced doctors performing abortions to do an ultrasound, display the sonogram for the woman and describe it in great detail suffered a final defeat on Monday when the U.S. Supreme Court declined to review the case.
The Louisiana Legislature ended a two-month drama Thursday — the final day of the 2015 legislative session — by approving a $24 billion budget that takes effect July 1.
Environmentalists are getting results in individual U.S. states, where environmental politics have significantly impacted greenhouse gas emissions between 1990 and the present..
With health insurance coverage expanded to millions more Californians, people living here illegally _ who are barred from signing up for Obamacare _ now make up the single biggest group of uninsured state residents.
While it's legal to smoke pot in Colorado, the Colorado Supreme Court rules that employees aren't protected from termination for marijuana consumption.
The Arlington County Board just approved a measure increasing penalties for public intoxication and profane language by $150.
The governor's new budget has generated intense opposition from water agencies and local government groups.
The football field's worth of books had been collecting in the basement for a decade.
Gov. Bruce Rauner is trying to exploit tensions pitting Chicago against the rest of the state in order to elect more GOP lawmakers to the legislature.
Rancho Santa Fe, Calif., resident Steve Yuhas, who thinks the high property taxes that people pay in his wealthy community (where the median income is $189,000) entitles them to use as much water as they want despite the state's drought. On July 1, for the first time ever, the town will be subject to water rationing.
Amount Montgomery County, Pa., will spend to replace 26 signs that spelled the word "commissioners" with only one "m.''
Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe, referring to his 2014 fight for Medicaid expansion, which the legislature opposed.
As a large manhunt for two escaped murderers stretched into its ninth day in upstate New York, Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Sunday that "we don't know if they are still in the immediate area or if they are in Mexico by now."
Florida legislators on Monday begin the final week of their three-week special session that was required because they could not settle differences on health care and pass a budget in the regular session that ended April 30. This is the closest the Legislature has come to ending the fiscal year with no budget since 1992.
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